January 2: Travel day (from U.S. to Egypt)
CAIRO—Flamenco Hotel
2 El Gezira El Wosta Street
Zamalek
20-22-73508-15/16/18
Day 1: Arrive to Egypt @ 10 am and settle in to hotel
(Jan. 3) Lunch @ Naguib Mahfouz Café
Deewan Bookstore
Khen el-Khalili
Naguib Mahfouz Walking Tour
Dinner @ Al-Fishawi Café
Day 2: “Coptic Cairo” in the Old City on a Sunday
(Jan. 4) Mari Guirguis
Abu Sarja
Hanging Church
Babylon Fort
Ben Ezra Synagogue
Walk through garbage district to Muqattam Mountain/Saint Simeon’s Monastery
Day 3: “Muslim Cairo”
(Jan. 5) Al-Azhar Mosque
Al-Maaz
Ibn Toulo
Citadel
Sufi Dancing (evening)
Day 4: Pyramids and Sphinx
(Jan. 6) Lunch @ The Greek Restaurant
Free afternoon and night (Christmas Eve)
Day 5: Free morning and noon (Christmas Day)
(Jan. 7) Egyptian Museum
Dinner @ Filfila Restaurant
Evening train to Luxor
LUXOR—Nefertiti Hotel
El Sahabi Street
20-95-2372386
Day 6: Lunch @ Amoon (“Cafeteria”)
(Jan. 8) East Bank
-Karnak
-Luxor Museum
-Luxor Temple
-Sound and Light Show
Day 7: Service day in Sohag (15 hours/student)
(Jan. 9) Visit Qus in the evening
Day 8: Service day in Sohag
(Jan. 10) Visit Qus/Nekada monasteries in the evening
Day 9: West Bank
(Jan. 11) -Valley of the Kings and Queens
-Hatshepsut Temple
Dinner @ Jazz Café
Day 10: Aswan day trip (stops at Edfu and Kom Ombo?)
(Jan. 12) -Unfinished Obelisk
-High Dam??
-Nubian Museum and Market
-Nubian village (accessible by felucca)
-Group Meal @ Sunset Restaurant
-Philae Temple (accessible by felucca)
-Sound and Light Show @ Philae
Day 11: Free morning and afternoon
(Jan. 13) 5-7:30 pm: Felucca to Banana Island
Group Meal @ Jazz Café
HURGHADA—hotel still being firmed up
Day 12: Travel to Hurghada (overnight?)
(Jan. 14) Rest and Recuperation (journaling and contemplation)
Explore night scene
Day 13: Rest and Recuperation (journaling and contemplation)
(Jan. 15) Free evening
SINAI—St. Catherine’s Tourist Village (1st night) and St. Catherine’s Guesthouse (2nd night)
Wadi El Raha El-Milga
St. Catherine St. Catherine
20-62-470-221or 20-
20-62-470-456
Day 14: Travel by ferry/plane to Sinai @ 8 or 9 am, bus to St. Catherine’s
(Jan. 16) See St. Catherine’s Monastery and other key sites
Rest and Recuperation (journaling and contemplation)
Day 15: Climb Mount Sinai at @ 3 am
(Jan. 17) Rest and Recuperation (journaling and contemplation)
DAHAB—Pearl of the South
El Mashraba
Dahab, South Sinai
20-104-031590
Day 16: Travel to Dahab @ 1 pm
(Jan. 18) Rest and Recuperation (journaling and contemplation)
Day 17: Rest and Recuperation (journaling and contemplation)
(Jan. 19) Desert Safari with Bedouins (dinner with Bedouins?)
Day 18: Rest and Recuperation (journaling and contemplation)
(Jan. 20) Travel to Cairo overnight
CAIRO—Flamenco Hotel
address above
Day 19: Shopping @ Khen el-Khalili Market
(Jan. 21) Debrief and Group Meal
Group activity
Day 20: Travel day (from Egypt to U.S. flight @ noon)
(Jan. 22)
